🚀 go-pugleaf

On 17/07/11 9:01 PM, Robert Neff wrote:

> If you have a conversation starter for when you
> catch up with one of these guys at the next light,
> let me know. We can always talk about our local
> cycling fatalities and injuries from this kind of thing.

It wasn't at a light, but I did have a conversation with a woman who ran 
2 stop signs on Campus Loop at Stanford about a week ago.  I was in the 
right lane, another car was at my left, we stopped at a stop sign for a 
pedestrian.  The bike ran the stop sign, but fortunately the pedestrian 
was still in front of my car and thus uninjured.  At the next 
intersection, same thing only *this* time I was stopped to let another 
vehicle that had the right of way (being at the intersection before I 
arrived) cross from left to right.  That vehicle saw the bicyclist 
passing my car, realized the bike wasn't going to stop, and stopped in 
the middle of the intersection (blocking my lane) as the bicyclist blew 
thru the stop sign to my right.

I passed the bicyclist and then pulled into the bike lane at the next 
stop sign, getting out and holding up my hand as a cop would do when 
directing traffic, and got the bike to stop.  I explained to the rider 
that she had come very close to getting killed at the previous 
intersection by not stopping.  The rider kept saying she was lost, 
asking if I knew where a particular building or street was.  I said I 
didn't know, but I did know that she better start stopping at stop 
signs.  She finally GOT it.

Rider was wearing regular clothes, riding a bike with upright handlebars 
and a basket in front, and no helmet - the complete opposite of the 
typical lycra-clad racers on Foothill.

jc